Meandering Mouse Club TV - Disney Park Video Adventures from Around the World! Tokyo DisneySEA's Sinbad's Storybook Voyage. Video taken in June 2007. Produced in association with Frikitiki Productions.

At Toyko DisneySEA, there an attraction that I consider to be one of my favorite attractions across all of the nine Disney parks that I have visited globally. In the Arabian Coast section of the park is Sindbad's Storybook Voyage. It's a boat ride like Pirates of the Caribbean or Small World and some people have compared it to Small World. The comparison ends at it being a boat ride, though. While it might look like small dolls, they are full animatronic figures with great motion capabilities. When Jeff and I visited in June 2007, the ride had just come off of rehab. The imagineers had given the attraction a new storyline. Alan Menken of "Little Mermaid" along with Glen Slater created the song "Compass of your Heart" which follows you throughout your voyage with SIndbad and his loyal tiger cub, Chandu. I was fully captivated by the ride. Mermaids, genies, thugs, giant birds, dancing monkeys...this attraction has it all! It is fully original, the song is catchy, the sets are detailed, and the animatronic figures are amazing (just watch for the belly dancers!). Too bad they didn't sell Chandu plushes.

Before we take the ride, you get to see some of the Oasis area of the Arabian Coast that is next to the Lost River Delta. This area was seen briefly in MMCTV EP0111, Musica Mexicana. Playing in the background is the Port Theme Song for the Arabian Coast which is taken from the Tokyo DisneySEA 5th Anniversary Music Album CD. (http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Disney-Sea-Anniversary-Celebration/dp/B000GPIHQ8).

Special thanks to Jeff for letting me use some of his pictures of the attraction in the video.

I hope you enjoy this trip into Sindbad's Storybook Voyage.

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**HEADPHONES A MUST FOR THIS ONE - TRUST ME - UNCOMPRESSED**

On this show, I start with a simple stream of consciousness taken in the bathroom of a Boeing 777 while crossing the Pacific Ocean heading for Japan. We then journey from Narita airport to Maihama station as we make our way to the most fascinating Disney park on Earth. Tokyo DisneySEA. Meander with me jet lagged and lost in translation as I make my way through my Tokyo arrival day. The show finale presents a pristine live recording of DisneySEA's night time spectacular BraviSEAmo which I've been trying to capture successfully during all my travels to Tokyo...it just never worked out the way I wanted it to until this presentation.

This is your chance to follow me as I cross the globe using planes, trains, and 4 wheeled luggage. It's exciting, it's an adventure, and I'm happy to share it with all of you.

HEADPHONE HEADPHONES HEADPHONES!!!! I haven't compressed a thing on this piece and it won't sound nearly as good without proper imaging.

Have fun on your trip!

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**Made for Headphones**

Doug aka DisneyParkHopper turns in another behind the scenes look at Disney attractions or what we like to call backstage meanderings:

From DisneyParkHopper:

In this Backstage Meandering, I take you through the history of two similar locations

in Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. We look at the space

currently occupied by Redd Rocket's Pizza Port and Stitch's Great Escape. The history

of these locations can be traced all the way back to the opening of Disneyland. So,

come with me as we use ride audio and audio from television specials to explore

A Retrospective of Rockets and Alien Encounters.

Have fun on your trip!

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**Made for Headphones**

Join our old friend Saul, the overly enthusiastic and optimistic tourist, out at Tokyo Disneyland as he spends quality time with his Uncle Coconut.

Real simple...We find our odd tourist out at Tokyo Disneyland with his Uncle Coconut. Uncle Coconut tries to sell Saul some prime real estate in the form of a Haunted Mansion and let's just say that I don't think the moving van ever made it to Saul's joint after his tour of the spooky house.

Shenanigans and ridiculousness of the highest order....you have been warned.

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**RATED PG - Made for Headphones**

My good buddy Quenton (Q) and I visited Tokyo for 9 days about 8 months ago. We, of course, spent some good time at the Tokyo Disney resort but also had many weird and wonderful experiences across the Tokyo landscape. We share a somewhat rambling day to day account of our adventures but tie in our experience with staying at The Mira Costa, one of Disney's most luxurious resorts (if not the most luxurious), with DPN'er Superdry's odd letter writing bout with the same hotel. Superdry loves The Mira Costa but has one huge problem with the place. Quenton and I discovered the same problem which led to one the wackiest nights out on the streets of Japan. I am even pretty sure we terribly broke the law by accident. Superdry's first letter of concern and return correspondence with the The Mira Costa occurred a full year ago. A promise was made to occur one year later so he sent another follow-up letter this year. Yesterday Superdry received another letter from the Japanese people at the hotel. The letter has remained unopened until the recording of a segment to be included in this show. We head to one of Houston's weirdest Japanese Karaoke bars called Genji, have some Japanese beers, record Superdry's story, and finally open the letter he received via air mail to see what their response to the second of his zany letters may be.

This will be an interesting and long show.

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Meandering Mouse Club TV - Disney Park Video Adventures from Around the World! Disney's New DVC Resort Hawaii Site Footage. Produced in association with Frikitiki Productions.

After it was announced in October 2007 that The Walt Disney Company was going to build a new Disney Vacation Club resort in Hawaii, Joel went out to the site in Oahu and took some video of the plot of land and surrounding area so you can see where the resort is going to be built. Well....This is the footage and give you a little tour. If you happened to have seen Joel's Chief Magic Official video entry, there is some footage of the area in that video too. In the video the degrees, minutes and seconds coordinated are given so you can put them into Google Earth and get a satellite view. Here's hoping that they put in an Adventures Club into the resort. Give it a South Pacific theme and boo-ya, we might have a winner!

During the same time frame the Lion King touring company was in Hawaii for a 13 week run (according to Disney this was the longest stay in any one city for one of the traveling tour companies) and they put some of the masks from the show on public display outside of the area of the concert hall where they were performing. You'll get to see them close up.

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Coming up this fall....plans to visit the Disneyland Paris Resort to get footage for the show!

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**Made for Headphones**

I begin this show with some post Westfest talk with a special guest.

The main portion of this show truly is a stream of consciousness. Classic Meanderings...just things sorta unfolding around me and you all are along for the ride.

Follow me into Disneyland on a Saturday Morning for the first official Westfest day as DPN podcasters and fans gather at Carnation Plaza to grab schwag, reunite with old friends, make new friends, and kick off Westfest. Chris from The Big D and I also take a ride on Alice in Wonderland after hearing that a cast member running the attraction is a fan of our shows.

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Meandering Mouse Club TV - Disney Park Video Adventures from Around the World! First Entry into HONG KONG DISNEYLAND. Produced in association with Frikitiki Productions.

Well, there has been some feedback that asked to show more of the Hong Kong park. Join me as we walk from the park's entry sign up through Sleeping Beauty's castle. We make a short stop into the exhibit in the Opera House. What was interesting about the display is that Disney is a new entity in that part of the world. While we grew up with Disney, they didn't so the Opera House is set up to tell guests about Disney the man and the Company. You'll see the two shows and some of the displays inside. I hope you enjoy the show!

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**Made for Headphones**

**PG-13 WARNING**

The Meandering Mouse is back with a bang after being on hiatus for a handful of weeks!

The MM show and The DPN all started with an email to the Trapped on Vacation podcast. I wrote in telling the host, now known as Earl, that I would be taking my first steps into Disneyland and would experiment by sending him some audio of my experience. He played the audio of my first steps into the park and my podcasting adventure began. Soon after that, I founded The Disney Podcast Network. We now come full circle just before The DPN's Westfest 2008 begins with myself following Earl and his Bleepin' Wife into Disneyland as they take their very first steps down Main Street. The reactions are captured here and I won't soon forget the moment I had with my close friends.

Earl was recording his experience as well so you will hear him narrating his show as I narrate mine. It's quite interesting if not a bit odd.

I also throw in some highlights of meeting up with a large number of DPN'ers for the first time during this year's Westfest. There are good vibes all around as I'm re-united with friends right before almost a dozen of us take a ride on The Matterhorn.

The show closes with my experience on Disneyland's submarine voyage with a few fellow DPN'ers.

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**Made for Headphones**

The Meandering Mouse has been buried in moving boxes for the past few weeks. Thus, Jeff from Houston is on hiatus. Luckily, Doug turns in another amazing sound seeing experience as he shares with us his recent Disneyland Paris experience full of his personal audio from the park. This show will only contain Doug's audio production...no intro by me...no audio bumpers...we just get on with the show. Thanks for the patience as I deal with a major change in my life.

-Jeff from Houston

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In this episode Doug (aka DisneyParkHopper) concludes his trip report from visiting the Disneyland Paris Resort last summer. This time, he will cover the Disneyland Paris Park. This trip report will include plenty of ambient park audio and audio sightseeing commentary. It will also include full ride thrus of the Fantasyland suite, as well as pirates of the Caribbean and phantom manor. Enjoy this glimpse into one of the most beautiful magic kingdom's in the world.Have fun and enjoy!

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